A critically acclaimed, award-winning documentary about the human condition, “This Way of Life” is an intimate, beautifully-filmed portrait of Peter Ottley Karena and his family. Though European, Peter was adopted into a Maori family, and is Maori in all but skin. Masterful in the saddle and Hollywood handsome, Peter lives by an internal code of values largely lost in modern times – he is horse-whisperer, philosopher, hunter and builder, husband and father. Despite seemingly overwhelming challenges, Peter refuses to compromise. The Ottley Karena’s unite their philosophy with their circumstances, turning hardship into a meaningful and satisfying life.
Shot in HDV, This Way of Life is an exploration of a world our collective consciousness has mythologized. In our paved-over consumer society we have modulated, appropriated and hidden the truly natural as if it does not exist. It is this world and how to live in it the Karena family and their horses reveal.
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